Showing posts with label velvet-fronted nuthatch. Show all posts
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28 August 2026

Velvet-fronted Nuthatch

 Passeriformes - Sittidae - Sitta frontalis (Pepatuk Dahi Hitam)

One of the few nuthatches to break the general neutral color scheme of the family, this stunner can be quite common in lowland and foothill evergreen forests. Aquamarine upperparts, crimson bill, and black patch on the forehead make this active little species unmistakable. Forages by creeping along trunks and branches, often upside down. Often moves in groups, frequently as a member of mixed-species flocks. Song is a high-pitched chittering trill; calls like isolated fragments of song.
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Cut to the chase - know what is, what is more, what is less.



20 September 2023

Easy by nature

 




Superior goodness resembles water.
Water well (in a good way) benefits the ten thousand things,
yet not it quarrels.

It dwells in all the people their place which is loathed.
Therefore it approaches to Reason.

For a dwelling it chooses the [level] ground.
For a heart it chooses the eddies.
In generosity it chooses humaneness.
In words it chooses faith.
In government it chooses ability
In its movements it chooses time. [rhythm]

Forasmuch just as not it quarrels,
therefore not it is rebuked.



06 September 2022

"As you wish."


"... just as it is ...."





"... wabi ... when you are not well-off, you have no thoughts about being so; ...."



 

20 April 2018

26 June 2017

"We need the tonic of wildness ...."





We need the tonic of wildness ... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
--> Henry David Thoreau